A graph of September Arctic sea ice extent (blue diamonds) with «recovery» years highlighted in red, versus the long - term sea
ice decline fit with a second order polynomial, also in red.
Not exact matches
See the Winton 2011 reference for an attempt to assess whether or not the observed sea
ice time series
fits with expected
declines from the coupled models.
The red «exponential» line best
fits the accelerating
decline in
ice volume.
Joey Comiso, a NASA sea
ice expert, said the continued pattern of low sea
ice extents
fits into the large - scale
decline that has unfolded over the past three decades.